“Jumping from failure to failure with undiminished enthusiasm is the big secret to success.” — Savas Dimopoulos
Your goal in life should be to reduce the amount of time it takes to get out of a bad state. The ability to bounce back quickly is one of life’s most important skills.
My wife once told me, “When you’re five, you can be mad for a day. When you’re ten, you can be mad for an hour. By the time you’re thirty, you get ten minutes—and then you have to move on.”
Life is full of frustration and disappointment. Real maturity isn’t eliminating bad moments—it’s shrinking the time they have power over you.
Becoming less reactive doesn’t mean nothing bothers you; it means you’ve trained yourself to recognize when you’re in a bad state and pull yourself out of it faster.
美國國家橄欖球聯盟（National Football League，NFL）歷史上最偉大的教練之一 Vince Lombardi 曾說：
It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get back up.
重點不是有無被擊倒，而是能否再次站起來。
電影《洛基：勇者無懼》（Rocky Balboa）裡，有一幕 是洛基父子在夜色下談心，他對著兒子說：
It’s not about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit, how much you can take, and keep moving forward.
重點不是你打得多用力，而是你能承受多少打擊、撐過多少困難，然後繼續往前走。